English > Commonwealth of Australia: 1 sense > noun 1, location| Meaning | A nation occupying the whole / whole of the Australian continent; Aboriginal tribes are thought to have migrated from southeastern Asia 20,000 years ago; first Europeans were British convicts sent there as a penal colony. |
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| Synonym | Australia |
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| Instance of | country, state, land | The territory occupied by a nation |
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| Member of | British Commonwealth, Commonwealth of Nations | An association of nations consisting of the United Kingdom and several former British colonies that are now sovereign states but still pay allegiance to the British Crown |
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| British Empire | A former empire consisting of Great Britain and all the territories under its control |
| Members | Australian, Aussie | A native or inhabitant of Australia |
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| Part of | Australia | The smallest continent |
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| Parts | Australian Alps | A range of mountains in Australia that forms the southern end of the Great Dividing Range |
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| Australian state | One of the several states constituting Australia |
| Canberra, Australian capital, capital of Australia | The capital of Australia |
| Cape York | The northern tip of Cape York Peninsula at the Torres Strait |
| Cape York Peninsula | A peninsula in Queensland in northeastern Australia between the Gulf of Carpentaria and the Coral Sea |
| Eyre, Lake Eyre | A shallow salt lake in south central Australia about 35 feet below sea level |
| Eyre Peninsula | A peninsula of southern Australia |
| Gibson Desert | A desert area in western Australia |
| Great Australian Bight | A wide bay of the Indian Ocean in southern Australia |
| Great Barrier Reef | The largest coral reef in the world |
| Great Dividing Range, Eastern Highlands | A mountain range running along the eastern coast of Australia |
| Great Sandy Desert | A desert region in northwestern Australia to the north of the Gibson Desert |
| Great Victoria Desert | A desert region in south central Australia to the north of the Nullarbor Plain |
| Gulf of Carpentaria, Carpentaria | A wide shallow inlet of the Arafura Sea in northern Australia |
| Murray, Murray River | A southeast Australian river |
| Murrumbidgee, Murrumbidgee River | A river of southeastern Australia |
| Namoi, Namoi River | A river in southeastern Australia that flows generally northwest to join the Darling River |
| New South Wales | An Australian state in southeastern Australia |
| Norfolk Island | An island territory of Australia in the Pacific Ocean off the eastern coast of Australia |
| Northern Territory | A territory in north central Australia |
| Nullarbor Plain | A vast arid plain of southern Australia stretching inland from the Great Australian Bight |
| Queensland | A state in northeastern Australia |
| Simpson Desert | A desert region of central Australia |
| South Australia | A state in south central Australia |
| Tasmania | An Australian state on the island of Tasmania |
| Victoria | A state in southeastern Australia |
| Western Australia | A state containing the western third of Australia |
| Region of | Australian, Aboriginal Australian | The Austronesian languages spoken by Australian aborigines |
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| Murdoch, Rupert Murdoch, Keith Rupert Murdoch | United States publisher (born in Australia in 1931) |
| billabong | A stagnant pool of water in the bed of a stream that flows intermittently |
| bonzer | remarkable or wonderful |
| boomerang, throwing stick, throw stick | A curved piece of wood |
| gilgai soil | soil in the melon holes of Australia |
| lagerphone | An Australian percussion instrument used for playing bush music |
| mate | informal term for a friend of the same sex |
| perisher | Bounder |
| plonk | A cheap wine of inferior / inferior quality |
| pommy, pom | A disparaging term for a British person |
| returning officer | The official in each electorate who holds the election and returns the results |
| sealed | Having been paved |
| sundowner | A tramp who habitually arrives at sundown |
| swag | A bundle containing the personal belongings of a swagman |
| swagman, swagger, swaggie | An itinerant Australian laborer who carries his personal belongings in a bundle as he travels around in search of work |
| tucker-bag | A bag used for carrying food |
| walkabout | nomadic excursions into the bush made by an Aborigine |
| yellow spot fungus, Cercospora kopkei | fungus causing yellow spot (a sugarcane disease in Australia) |
| Spanish | austrália, Australia, Commonwealth of Australia, Mancomunidad de Australia |
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| Catalan | Australia, Austràlia |
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